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"Sound and sense" Alexsandr Pope (Lexical SD (Epithet (the…
"Sound and sense" Alexsandr Pope
Phonetic SD
Alliteration
Soft, strain, gently
Lash, shore
Hoarse, rough, torrent, roar
Sound, seem, sense
Alliteration delivers the sound that accompanies the sense in this poem.
Onomatopoeia
"The sound must seem an echo to the sense"
"Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number flows;
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Onomatopoeia helps to prove that movement in poetry is the central part of the art like in dance.
Assonance
Vowels: "rough, enough "
Vowels; 'slow, along, blow, flow, hoarse, labour, words'
Vowels: "smooth, smoother, move, too'
Rhyme
full rhyme (chance - dance; offense - sense; blows - flows)
Lexical SD
Peraphrase
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance As those move easiest who have learned to dance
Epithet
the sounding shore
the torrent roar
the unbending corn
the hoarse, rough verse
Simile
The sound must seem an echo to the scene
Soft is the strain
Allusion
Allusion to Ajax (The Iliad by Homer)
Allusion to Camilla (The realm of the Roman poet Virgin)
Allusion to Timotheus (classical reference)
Metre
disyllabic metre - iambus
irregular meter (the last lines: three syllables are longer than the other lines)
couplets
Graphical SD : :
graphon - o'er